Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One that visits.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who visits.
- noun A superior or person authorized to visit a corporation or any institution, for the purpose of seeing that the laws and regulations are observed, or that the duties and conditions prescribed by the founder or by law are duly performed or executed.
- noun In zoology, a visitant.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- One who visits; one who comes or goes to see another, as in civility or friendship.
- A superior, or a person lawfully appointed for the purpose, who makes formal visits of inspection to a corporation or an institution. See
Visit , v. t., 2, andVisitation , n., 2.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Someone who
visits someone else; someone staying as a guest. - noun Someone who pays a visit to a specific place or event; a sightseer or tourist.
- noun sports, usually in the plural Someone, or a team, that is playing
away from home. - noun ufology An
extraterrestrial being on Earth for any reason. - noun An object which lands or passes by Earth or its orbit.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who visits
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word visitor.
Examples
-
_ The visitor will not give him o'er so] Why Dr. Warburton should change _visitor_ to _'vizer_ for _adviser_, I cannot discover.
Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies Samuel Johnson 1746
-
Move: Choreographing You, which opened last week, sets out to change that, with a series of installations in which the visitor is an active, and at times hyperactive, participant.
Move: Choreographing You; Renditions Luke Jennings 2010
-
This time the visitor is a local lawyer with an interesting story.
-
Sending something home with a visitor is a real treat for them.
Archive 2008-11-01 2008
-
Sending something home with a visitor is a real treat for them.
-
Sawmill Analytics allows you to choose what you define as a visitor - by default the client IP is used, but you can use a cookie
-
But if I were going to Tokyo tomorrow, I would, on arrival, hold off on the "maid cafes" in the nerds 'electronic hive of Akihabara, on the Hysteric Glamour fashions around Harajuku, even on the gleaming shops of the Ginza that have long made Tokyo seem an early visitor from the 23rd century.
Big in Japan: why Tokyo is top Pico Iyer 2010
-
How would a visitor from the future look to a courtier in Louis XIV's Versailles?
-
What would the eighteenth century look like to a visitor from the twenty-second?
-
The whole place seems to be in a state of perpetual motion, and the occasional visitor is apt to have a feeling of giddiness.
Hester Street Fair Opens In Style (PHOTOS) The Huffington Post News Team 2010
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.